Year: 1963

Shall the House Committee on Un-American Activities Be Abolished?

Howard Zinn debates Fulton Lewis III at Emory University. Opening remarks by Nancy Perkins. Howard Zinn Papers, Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University. February 11, 1963.
On February 11, 1963, at Emory University, Howard Zinn participated in a debate with Fulton Lewis III, a journalist and member of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), on whether HUAC should be abolished. Zinn noted this in his diary and the two-and-half hour event was recorded.
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SNCC Worker Briefing, Fall 1963 | HowardZinn.org

SNCC: The Battle-Scarred Youngsters

By Howard Zinn. Article. The Nation, October 5, 1963 and republished April 23, 2009.
Howard Zinn wrote about SNCC’s participation at the 1963 March on Washington. “. . . the youngest speaker on the platform, John Lewis...lashed out in anger, not only at the Dixiecrats, but at the Kennedy Administration, which had been successful up to that moment in directing the indignation of 200,000 people at everyone but itself.”
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